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'''''Felicia''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the [[Asteraceae|daisy family]].

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Felicia (for Herr Felix, a German official). Compositae. Herbs or sub-shrubs, grown under glass or as pot specimens.

Leaves alternate, entire or dentate: heads usually long-peduncled, the corolla blue or white, the disk yellow. Much like Aster, from which it differs in having pappus bristles in one series, and in other technical characters.—Forty to 50 species in Afr.
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==Cultivation==
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==Species==
About 90 species<ref>Ortiz, S. (2007). A new species of ''Felicia'' L. (Asteraceae, Astereae) from South Africa. ''Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society'' 154(4) 545-8.</ref>.

Species include:
*''[[Felicia abyssinica]]''
*''[[Felicia alba]]''
*''[[Felicia amelloides]]''
*''[[Felicia bergeriana]]''
*''[[Felicia echinata]]''
*''[[Felicia erigeroides]]''
*''[[Felicia filifolia]]''
*''[[Felicia fruticosa]]''
*''[[Felicia gunillae]]''
*''[[Felicia martinsiana]]''
*''[[Felicia merxmuelleri]]''
*''[[Felicia muricata]]''
*''[[Felicia rosulata]]''
*''[[Felicia tenella]]''

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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->

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